Wedding ahead

We came back to a hectic but delightful time in Austin. Our son Rolf is getting married to Kristy Money in Utah December 28 and we just had a reception for them here December 22.

Exhibit A here is the cake for that reception.

Next is a picture of Rolf and Kristy themselves. Rolf is 25 and is teaching 4th grade students in a largely Dominican-American neighborhood in New York City as part of the Teach for America program. Kristy is 23 and is finishing a Ph.D. in counseling psychology at BYU, now doing an internship in New Y0rk.

Rolf and Kristy had met just before he left to work for a health education organiza- tion in Mozambique 2006-07, so it has been sort of a virtual courtship much of the time. (Sandy and I did that too, with me in Brazil, and her in the USA and Iceland, in the couple of years we were "courting" at a distance.) The tools are a lot better now. We became aware of Kristy when she started commenting on Rolf's blog while he was in Mozambique. They blogged and emailed and skyped and so forth. (Back in 19776-78, we had slow letters and expensive phone calls.)

We just now met her face to face. The poor girl had to do the whole meet the parents scene with us in the last few days. She seems to have held up well and she struck us as absolutely delightful.